Caveau: Wine Cellar

Bang for the buck, measured. • NEW: every bottle now tells you whether it plays above or below its price point — from how YOU rated it against what YOU paid, not a critic's number. Haven't rated it yet? The bottle asks, and answers the moment you do. • Every price now shows where it came from — what you paid, merchant listings, our estimate — and is drawn only as precisely as that source has earned. The bands got WIDER, because we measured how wide they need to be: on 1,376 held-out wines with real prices, our old band contained about 30% of them. • Prices now come from real shops where real shops carry the wine — several listings agreed, not one, with the range they actually span. • Ratings got the same treatment. A rating built only from our baseline now shows as a range with "baseline only" under it, instead of a confident-looking number. One members have actually rated shows as the number it is. • Where we can, a rating now says the only thing we can genuinely prove: "better than N% of 13,015 blind-judged wines" — from competition data we own. • Your cellar's gain or loss no longer claims a direction the numbers can't support. When the estimate is too uncertain to call, it says so instead of picking a side. • The insurance schedule moved to replacement cost — what it would cost to buy each bottle again at an ordinary shop, which is what policies schedule against and is higher than a resale figure. • Fixed: opening a bottle for detail could crash the app. • Why it works this way: across those 13,015 wines the median score is 88 in every single price bracket. Price barely predicts quality — so "good value" can only mean a wine you loved that cost little.